Ginger Rogers
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The Diary: Tate Modern; Clint Eastwood; Michel Hazanavicius; Rhys Darby; Kevin Spacey
Close encounters As the West End prepares to go dark, at least in parts, for the Olympics, the Tate Modern is throwing itself wholeheartedly into the swing of things. As well as its giant Damien Hirst survey, the gallery is bringing forward the unveiling of the next Turbine Hall installation to coincide with the 2012 [...]
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Arts on TV: 'Il Postino,' Angel City Jazz, 'Hamlet'
“Great Performances” 7 p.m. Thursday, KOCE; 8 p.m. Thursday, KVCR; 7 p.m. Saturday KOCE: "Andrea Bocelli and David Foster: My Christmas": David Foster joins Andrea Bocelli for a performance of seasonal favorites; guests include Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige, Katherine Jenkins, the Muppets and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. “Great Performances” 9 p.m. Thursday, KOCE; 5:30 [...]
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Top hat! Return to the golden age of the musical
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers cheered cinematic audiences expecting "trouble ahead" by urging them to "face the music and dance". Fast-forward 75 years and theatres across the country are staging classic musicals to provide escapism during a different era of austerity. Josef Weinberger, the UK agents for Rodgers & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company, which owns [...]
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Before Lucy Was Lucy – Classic Film
Before Lucille Ball was remembered for her for iconic character, "Lucy Ricardo" in the classic television series, "I Love Lucy," the actress was persistent throughout rejection and illness to become a star performer. While living in New York City, Ms. Ball worked as a fashion model under the name of "Diane Belmont" before it was [...]
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Jennifer Grey Jamie Lee Curtis
Published on November 9, 2010 by Admin · no Comments Jennifer Grey Jamie Lee Curtis: Jamie Lee Curtis was asked producers last month to be on the show, but she said “no” to invite. “They knocked on,” Jamie Lee. “No one was home. I just do not have time for family, that the volume of [...]
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Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 7 – Playbill.com
Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 7 By Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas 07 Aug 2010 1919 Actors' Equity calls the longest strike in American theatre history. Francis Bacon's Lightin' and 12 other Broadway shows go dark as the fledgling union's struggle for recognition moves to the picket lines. Four days later, the chorus in Flo [...]
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'Red,' a play about art, is big winner at Tonys
NEW YORK – If you weren't watching the Tonys too carefully, you would have thought they had turned into the Oscars. Sunday's show was a night for celebrities and for the meaning of celebrity, when Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Catherine Zeta-Jones took home their first Tonys, and when the most honored play, "Red," [...]
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Actress Betty Lou Keim dies
Betty Lou Keim, who played Frank Sinatra's out-of-control niece inthe 1958 melodrama "Some came Running," died Jan. 27 at her home in Chatsworth, Calif., after a battle with lung cancer. she was 71. Keim also portrayed a daughter having trouble communicating withher divorced mom Ginger Rogers in "Teenage Rebel" (1956) afterperforming the role a year [...]
